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Some facts and figures about
the famous mountain, to give you a better understanding
of the immensity of the challenge.
A gust of figures, an
avalanche of dates, altitudes and comparisons.
Learn about the effects and tricks of high altitudes.
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COMPARATIVE
ALTITUDES OF MOUNTAINS:
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FACTS AND FIGURES
May 5,
1999 – Summit
Arrived at 12:10 p.m.
from Nepal, spent 40 minutes
at the summit
2 climbers: Bernard
Voyer and Dorjee Fulelee Sherpa
Technical support: Nathalie Tremblay
Everest, the highest mountain in the world, 8 850m
(29,035 feet)
Mount Royal: 233m
Mont Tremblant: 96 m
Mont Blanc: 4 807m
Aconcagua: 6 959m
Everest: 27° 59’
North latitude, 86°
55’ East longitude
Named after Colonel George Everest (1790-1866)
Everest base camp: 5 400m
4 high-altitude
camps are required:
Camp I, at 6 100m
Camp II, at 6 500m
Camp III, at 7 400m
Camp IV, at 8 000m
The Jet Stream is a constant wind blowing at 200km/h
above 8 000m.
14 mountains are
higher than 8 000m
and all are located in the Himalayas.
May 15, 1991, 1stQuebecker
to climb Everest: Yves Laforêt
May 5, 1999, 2nd
: Bernard Voyer
May 2,4 2001, 3rd
: François Langlois
May 16, 2002, 4rth
: Jason Rodi
May 29, 1953: New
Zealander Sir Edmund Hillary, 33,
born on 1919/07/20,
and Sherpa Tenzing were the first
to reach the "Roof of the World."
2002, International
year of the mountain proclaimed by the United Nations
2003, The 50th
anniversary of the 1st
ascent of Mount Everest
Temba Sherpa, age 16,
was the youngest to climb Everest, summit May
22, 2001; Japan’s Yuichiro Miura was the
oldest, at age 70 and
222 days .
On May 16, 1975
Junko Tabei was the first woman to reach the summit.
Today, 75 women
did the same and the oldest one is Japan’s Tamae
Watanabe, at age 63.
Anyone wishing to climb Everest must have a permit.
In 1991, the cost
of the permit was C$3,500.
Today, it is C$125,000.
The amount of oxygen in the air drops drastically with
altitude:
at 3 000m,
69%
at 6 000m,
47%
at 8 000m,
35%
at the summit, 30%
Climbing pace: climbing just 400
m/day above 3 000m:
at 3 000m,
take one day's
rest
at 4 000m,
2 days
at 5 000m,
3 days
at 6 000m,
4 days
above 7 500m,
acclimatization is impossible.
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EVEREST SEEN
FROM MOUNT PUMORI
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Excerpt from :
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A
- Everest (8 850m)
B - South
Col (7 980m)
C - Lothse
(8 511m)
D - Nuptse
(7 861m)
E - North
Col (7 066m)
F - Changtse
(7 583m)
G - Rongbuk
western glacier
H - West
Coomb
I
- Location of camp 2 (6 500m)
J - West
Shoulder (7 309m)
K - Lho
La (6 026m)
L - Hornbein
Corridor
M - Norton
Corridor
N - Khumbutse
(6 685m)
O - Normal
Lothse route
P - Pumori
summit (7 135m)
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1
- Normal
route taken by Hillary and Tenzing Sherpa
on May 29, 1953. Also the route taken by
Bernard Voyer and Dorjee Sherpa on May 5,
1999.
2 -
SW face (Bonington route): On September
24, 1975, Douglas Haston and Doug Scott,
then Peter Boardman and Pertemba, probably
followed by Mike Burke, disappeared not
far from the summit.
3 -
N Face (Japanese corridor): On May 10, 1980,
Tsuneoh Shigehiro and Takashi Ozaki.
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The
"8000 metre club"
There are 14 mountains above 8 000m
in the world.
They are all located in the Himalayas.
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Everest |
8
850m |
29,035' |
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K-2 |
8
611m |
28,250' |
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Kangchejunga |
8
586m |
28,200' |
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Lhotse |
8
516m |
27,940' |
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Makalu |
8
463m |
27,766' |
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Cho Oyu |
8
201m |
26,906' |
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Dhaulagiri |
8
167m |
26,795' |
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Manaslu |
8
163m |
26,781' |
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Nanga Parbat |
8
125m |
26,660' |
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Annapurna |
8
091m |
26,545' |
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Gasherbrum I |
8
068m |
26'470' |
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Broad Peak |
8
047m |
26,400' |
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Shishapangma |
8
046m |
26,397' |
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Gasherbrum II |
8
035m |
26,360' |
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| Temperature
in altitude
Altitude (m) above
see level
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Altitude
(pieds) above see level
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Température
(°C) |
Température
(°F |
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0 |
0 |
15.0 |
59.0 |
200
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656 |
13.7 |
56.7 |
| 400
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1,312 |
12.4 |
54.3
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600
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1,969 |
11.1 |
52.0 |
800
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2,625 |
9.8 |
49.6 |
| 1
000 |
3,281 |
8.5 |
47.3 |
1
200
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3,937 |
7.2 |
45.0 |
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1 400 |
4,593 |
5.9 |
42.6 |
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1 600 |
5,250 |
4.6 |
40.3 |
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1 800 |
5,906 |
3.3 |
37.9 |
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2 000 |
6,562 |
2.0 |
35.6 |
| 2
400 |
7,874 |
-0.6 |
30.9 |
2
800
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9,187 |
-3.2 |
26.2 |
| 3
000 |
9,843 |
-4.5 |
23.9 |
| 3
400 |
11,155 |
-7.1 |
19.2 |
| 3
800 |
12,468 |
-9.7 |
14.5 |
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4 000 |
13,124 |
-11.0 |
12.2 |
| 4
500 |
14,765 |
-14.3 |
6.4 |
| 5
000 |
16,405 |
-17.5 |
0.5 |
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5 500 |
18,044 |
-20.8 |
-5.4 |
| 6
000 |
19,686
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-24.0 |
-11.2 |
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| Nepal
Facts and Figures |
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| Geography
Nepal is a rectangular country, 150km
wide by 800km
long, between Tibet and India. The Himalayas in the
north of the country (10
mountains over 8 000
metres high, more than 100
over 7 000m)
act as a weather barrier and a defence (over a distance
of 25km, the altitude
can vary from 6 000m);
mountains can be crossed via rivers (often hemmed
in by steep walls) and cols at 4 500
to 6 000 metres.
The Terai is a low-lying region bordering India,
and then from east to west there are the Kangchenjunga
massif, the Makalu massif and Everest (or Solu Khumbu),
the Kathmandu Valley, with Langtanag and Helambu to
the north, the Annapurna massif and, finally, Dolpo.
35% of the country
lies below 1 000m.
25% is between
1 000m and
2 000m, 30%
between 2 000m
and 5 000m,
and 10% above
5 000m. Forests
cover 20% of the
land (as compared with 40%
fifteen years
ago), 20% of the
land is arid, 23%
is cultivated, 15%
lies under eternal snow, and 13%
is used for pasture.
Time difference: 9 hours
and 45 minutes difference between Montreal
and Kathmandu, the capital. Over 20
hours by air.
Population
21.9 million
inhabitants, of whom 6.2
million are Indo-Nepalese, 960,000
Tamgans, 750,000
Tharus, 620,000
Newars, 536,000
Magars, 500,000
Rais, 357,000
Gurungs, 300,000
Limbus, 51,000
Sherpas.
Ages: 50% are
under 19 years
old
Life expectancy: 53
10 million of
the people are illiterate.
Religions
Hindu (state religion until 1990)
90%, Buddhist
5.8%, Muslim 2.7%.
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